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and thank you for being here. her number is 66 i terms of her ratiexplain how this works. okay. so patients over 12 are ranked on the severity of their illness. they put a lot o factors into it, and they are given what is called a lung allocation score. and the orgs are given out based on who is the sickist, it s basic triage medicine, the sickist patient is treated first. martha: if you re under 12 you re in a different category. if you re under 12 you are priority one or priority two and you are time accrued, so how long you ve been waiting. now and you only have access to pediatric lungs which are only about 20 a year versus 2,000 adult lungs a year. martha: when you look at this situation you ve got 1700 people waiting for a lung, 30 of them are under 12, and obviously, you

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